{"id":330998,"date":"2024-06-03T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T07:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=330998"},"modified":"2024-06-03T09:24:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T07:24:02","slug":"half-of-german-e-car-buyers-regret-their-purchase-or-lease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=330998","title":{"rendered":"Half Of German E-Car Buyers Regret Their Purchase Or Lease!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"331002\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=331002\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0Company-Car-Lease-Scheme.jpg?fit=2121%2C1414&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2121,1414\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0Company-Car-Lease-Scheme\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0Company-Car-Lease-Scheme.jpg?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0Company-Car-Lease-Scheme.jpg?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-331002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0Company-Car-Lease-Scheme.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0Company-Car-Lease-Scheme.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0Company-Car-Lease-Scheme.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0Company-Car-Lease-Scheme.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0Company-Car-Lease-Scheme.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0Company-Car-Lease-Scheme.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0Company-Car-Lease-Scheme.jpg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/notrickszone.com\/2024\/06\/02\/half-of-german-e-car-buyers-regret-their-purchase-or-lease\/\">NoTricksZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/notrickszone.com\/author\/admin\/\">P Gosselin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Many Germans regret their purchase or lease of an e-car and Germans overall are increasingly unwilling to consider them.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"583\" data-attachment-id=\"331000\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=331000\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-64.png?fit=638%2C583&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"638,583\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-64\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-64.png?fit=638%2C583&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-64.png?resize=638%2C583&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-331000\" style=\"width:760px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-64.png?w=638&amp;ssl=1 638w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-64.png?resize=300%2C274&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Citing an article published in the online\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkur.de\/wirtschaft\/elektroautos-zulassungen-energiewende-flaute-elektromobilitaet-zr-93058217.html\">Merkur.de<\/a>, Blackout News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blackout-news.de\/\">reports<\/a>: \u201cHalf of German e-car owners regret their purchase or lease\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apparently German e-car owners are disappointed due especially to \u201crising electricity prices\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently we&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/notrickszone.com\/2024\/05\/07\/the-german-e-vehicle-nightmare-2024-q1-sales-plummet-14-graveyard-for-unsold-cars\/\">reported here<\/a>&nbsp;that the German e-car industry was \u201ca crisis headed for a catastrophe\u201d and that sales were plummeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q1 2024, EV sales declined some 14.1% compared to Q1 of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>e-car targets now a fantasy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile sales of conventional engine cars have risen strongly over the same period. According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blackout-news.de\/\">Blackout News<\/a>, the share of electric cars sold from the entire automobile mix was just 12.2 percent. and new e-car registrations in the current year are \u201cdown significantly\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-unsichere-zukunft-und-fehlende-forderung\">Customers overall remain wary of e-cars and no sales boost is in sight. This means Germany will fall far short of its electric car targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Renate K\u00f6cher from the Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research: \u201cIn the long-term trend, e-mobility has always been in the minority, but now we have reached a new low.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Germans regret their purchase or lease of an e-car and Germans overall are increasingly unwilling to consider them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":331002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691821977,691819691,691818051],"class_list":{"0":"post-330998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-electric-vehicles-evs","9":"tag-electricity-prices","10":"tag-germany","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0Company-Car-Lease-Scheme.jpg?fit=2121%2C1414&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1o6G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":244628,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=244628","url_meta":{"origin":330998,"position":0},"title":"Germany Wary Of Europe\u2019s Ban Of Fossil Fuel Cars By 2035\u2026 Too Pricey, Technically Unfeasible","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/21\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"As the EU Parliament voted on February 14th to ban the registration of new fossil fuel cars beginning in 2035, it appears the folly of the idea is just beginning to dawn on those who had been expected to take a more critical stand much earlier.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-526.png?fit=1200%2C596&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-526.png?fit=1200%2C596&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-526.png?fit=1200%2C596&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-526.png?fit=1200%2C596&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-526.png?fit=1200%2C596&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":265611,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=265611","url_meta":{"origin":330998,"position":1},"title":"Green New Deal\u2019s Unaffordable Mobility\u2026Nissan Head Warns E-Cars Too Expensive For Many","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/05\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"From NoTricksZone By\u00a0P Gosselin\u00a0on\u00a04. 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